Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Michelle Obama
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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‘Victory’ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.
Nipsey Hussle
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Robert E. Lee
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You’ve never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
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